HD200-Blu Ray Menus-Current Status

[Linkin_Logs]

I'm looking to add one (or two) more HD200 units around the house and was wondering if Blu Ray Menus are ever going to be implemented with the current hardware (or software). I've seen it mentioned in the past but nothing in the last month or two.

[tmiranda]

Probably, but it will take a while due to licensing issues I believe. There were a few other, long, discussions about this and Narflex even mentioned it in an interview with Brent over at GeekTonic. Cruise over to GeekTonic.com and look for the interview with Jeff (Narflex) from Sage.

[Linkin_Logs]

Thanks for the reply. To me at least, it seems this is the one option that a lot of the recent players are trying to deliver. If Sage could implement this I think it would put it ahead of the pack.

[Fuzzy]

well, if menues are THAT important, there's always running a PC client. It's working great for me, and is actually fully WAF compatible. Seamless interaction between SageTV and Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre 3 (along with Girder4 and AnyDVDHD)... gets me full BD support (BD-Live, Full HD Audio, menus, etc) direct from disc OR ripped on HDD.

[adamwh]

I would settle for just being able to pick a playlist.

[Linkin_Logs]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

well, if menues are THAT important, there's always running a PC client. It's working great for me, and is actually fully WAF compatible. Seamless interaction between SageTV and Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre 3 (along with Girder4 and AnyDVDHD)... gets me full BD support (BD-Live, Full HD Audio, menus, etc) direct from disc OR ripped on HDD.

Well it's too bad I can't have the HD200 use TMT3 (say running on my server) then I'd have pretty much everything I'd need.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Linkin_Logs

Thanks for the reply. To me at least, it seems this is the one option that a lot of the recent players are trying to deliver. If Sage could implement this I think it would put it ahead of the pack.

You're saying there's "a lot" of players that support BD-J from a ripped Blu-ray? I'm only aware of Arcsoft TotalMedia Theater and maybe the PCH C200.

[Linkin_Logs]

Originally Posted by stanger89

You're saying there's "a lot" of players that support BD-J from a ripped Blu-ray? I'm only aware of Arcsoft TotalMedia Theater and maybe the PCH C200.

What I'm saying is if you look at some of the specs (I'll try and find the links next time over at AVS...Dune, PCH C200, and Xtreamer come to mind) of the new players heading toward the market they are "trying" to offer some kind of Blu Ray menu support. It would be a nice feature....just don't know if it could be done with the current HD200 hardware.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Linkin_Logs

Well it's too bad I can't have the HD200 use TMT3 (say running on my server) then I'd have pretty much everything I'd need.

It's the number one reason I DON'T have an HD200 yet...

[autoboy]

I just want to be able to pick the video streams. I can't watch the Watchmen because it picks the wrong video.

[Deacon Crusher]

Would also be great if they paid for a dts license per unit and could either pass through dts, or downcovert/transcode or some such dts to ac3 so you could watch through TV without a stereo. Lots of blu-rays have dts as primary audio stream, some don't even have a dolby stereo track. So, in order to play your blu-rays through sage at any TV, not just the ones that have stereos next to them, we need a solution to this.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Deacon Crusher

Would also be great if they paid for a dts license per unit and could either pass through dts...

It does pass DTS. It just can't decode it.

[cat6man]

Originally Posted by Linkin_Logs

What I'm saying is if you look at some of the specs (I'll try and find the links next time over at AVS...Dune, PCH C200, and Xtreamer come to mind) of the new players heading toward the market they are "trying" to offer some kind of Blu Ray menu support. It would be a nice feature....just don't know if it could be done with the current HD200 hardware.

and those players are all still pretty buggy..............we'd all be pretty annoyed
if sage sold us stuff that unreliable.............i trust sage will have a competitive
extender when the 864x f/w and sdk stabilize..................it just isn't baked yet...............whether or not the hd200 will ever do this or not, i really have no idea, but since i need hdmi1.3 anyway for hd audio, bd menus is only a partial solution on the hd200 and really is only 'necessary' but not 'sufficient'

[Deacon Crusher]

yep, sorry, new that. poorly worded message.

I meant

Would also be great if they paid for a dts license per unit and then extenders could either pass through dts (as they already do,) or then be able to downcovert/transcode or some such dts to ac3 or stereo so you could watch through TV without a local stereo.

Originally Posted by stanger89

It does pass DTS. It just can't decode it.